Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-04-07
CHINESE HOLIDAY COSTUMES.
Exquisite Embellishments of Mongul
Maidens.

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During the celebration of the New
Year, now going on in Chinese quarter.
there are many rich and beautiful cos
tunes to be seen worn by the alom-
eyed damsels of the city. The love of
bright colors is not moro marked
among the negroes than among the ORR
entails, and richness Of apparel ranks
with them above dainty food and do
mestic cleanliness. The blending and
association of colorS exhibited in their
dresses is very interesting and not lit
tie peculiar to the gentle eye. No con-
trast to the Mongol eye is too striking;
no mass of colors too glazing. and no
single .shade too vivid. Nor are the
women alone in their desire for snowy
dress. The men also delight in bril-
liant hues, delicate lavenders, golden
yellows, ana verdant green.
The young Chinese girls are particul
airy gay in their dress. Their love of
bright colors is not limited to the clothes
they put on, for their faces are al
ways highly crimsoned with Chinese
red and their hair is plastered and or
namented with flowers. jewelry, beads.
laces, and gaudy ribbons. Some of
their costumes are picturesque enough
and the bold contrasts of glowing col
ors are worthy of note.
One oriental damsel who was airing
herself and her fiuery simultaneously
yesterday afternoon on Dupont street
wore a pale blue silk coat with huge
funnel-like sleeves trimmed with black
and pale yellow silk braid. Her trous-
ers were of black silk, also bordered
with pale yellow; her boatlike sabots
were embroidered with blue silk and
the deep white soles provide an area
of about three square inches for the
maid to stand erect upon. Another
Celestial maiden was simply dressed,
except that garment which among
Chr ,stians is peculiar to males was a
gorgeous orange silk, and her stockings,
evidently of American make, were of
red silk with clocks up the side. A
third girl wore an azure blue skirt, a
crimson coat, and bright green trousers.
Still another wore pale violet cloak
over dark blue blouse, her trowsers
also being green. A very brilliant
costume was a crimson silk coat with a
broad band of green and red embroidery
running all around the skirt, neck, and
AMI sleeves; the trousers were bright
blue and the shoes prettily embroider-
ed in pink and gold. A pale blue
cloak. violet trousers with yellow
trimmings. pearl-beaded hoaddress. and
inely-worked silver bangles on wrists
and ankles formed the principa
features of the costume of small Mon
col maiden. who held in her hand tht
diminutive cue of her small brother who
trotted before her The boy was hard
ly less attractively dressed, aud his pale
pink silk round hat was decorated with
bright-red silk knob, and huge tasse
Of the same material and color. Some
OF the smaller girls wore sleeveless
jackets over their under-garments. very
much like the men. One wore slate
colored silken Enlargement with {
white satin, sleeveless jacket and
trousers also of the same soft-shadec
material as the under-garment. On
Of the strangest dresses of all was ;
salmon-colored silk coat with length.
skirts. from under which peeped out
pair Of bright-green trousers, EN-
{ broidered with black and pink silk. Tn
older women are much more quietl,
dressed, generally wearing but on
color. and that of dark shade, such a
violet. dark blue, or purple. Sd
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